Anna Kalinskaya lasts one set against Yulia Starodubtseva
WTA 1000 Beijing: Yuliia Starodubtseva-Anna Kalinskaya 7-5 6-0
Anna Kalinskaya's adventure at the Beijing Masters 1000 ends in the round of 16. The Russian tennis player, in fact, è was defeated by Ukraine's Yulia Starodubtseva with the score of 7-5 6-0.
The match started in the best way for Jannik Sinner’s fiancée, who found the break already in the third game. However, the Nachovka native does not lose heart and first places the immediate counter-break and then breaks her rival again in the twelfth and decisive game, winning the partial 7-5.
In the second set, Anna Kalinskaya completely disappeared from the court and Yulia Starodubtseva quickly closed the file with a peremptory 6-0.
Born in 1998, Anna Kalinskaya has three WTA circuit successes to her credit, all in doubles (Prague 2019 with Viktoria Kuzmova, Portorož 2021 with Tereza Mihailova, St. Petersburg 2022 with Caty McNally) while in singles (where she won 7 ITF titles) she won the WTA 125 in Midland in 2023 and lost two finals this year, in the WTA 1000 in Dubai against Jasmine Paolini and in the WTA 500 in Berlin against Jessica Pegula.
